Norman Thrower obituary
Other lives: Pioneering cartographer and geography professor who developed new 3D mapping techniques
Elisabeth Russell Taylor obituary
Author of dark, brilliant and unsettling novels and short stories
Shalom Schotten obituary
Other lives: Graphic designer for Thames & Hudson who worked closely with artists such as David Hockney
Tom Maschler obituary
Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fiction
Ian Michael obituary
Other lives: Scholar of medieval Spanish culture who also wrote a series of detective novels
Stephen Cohen obituary
US historian who argued that the Soviet Union could have been reformed and need not have ended when it did
Barbara Ker Wilson obituary
Author and children’s publisher who discovered Paddington Bear
Tim Wilkinson obituary
Other lives: Eminent translator of Hungarian literature into English
Janet Freer obituary
Other lives: Literary agent who helped launch the careers of several young science fiction writers in the 1960s and 70s
Pamela Erskine obituary
Other lives: Children’s librarian who as a union rep fought for equal pay and against budget cuts
Derek Mahon obituary
One of the great poets of his native Ireland who combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopian sense of survival
Gail MacColl Jarrett obituary
Other lives: American editor and author who retrained as a relationship counsellor on her move to the UK
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne obituary
Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, author and contrarian columnist who was one of the last high Tory commentators
Stuart Durant obituary
Other lives: Lecturer and author of books on design and architectural history
Meron Benvenisti obituary
Historian and commentator who challenged the viability of a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians